Digitalising the purchase of Feed, Fuel and Fertiliser for dairy farmers to help manage price volatility

饲料、燃料和肥料，即3f，对奶农来说都是至关重要的原料。自2021年夏季以来，3f的成本一直在螺旋式上升，这使得乳制品的生产成本极具挑战性，农民几乎没有能力接受净零倡议，因为他们不知道自己的业务是否会盈利。奶农目前几乎没有能力控制他们的投入成本。购买3f通常是一个非常手工的过程，农民只能以目前非常高的价格购买。但是在3f中有开放的市场，在那里产品被买卖到未来。一般来说，目前只有大公司才能进入这些市场，在那里他们交易3f以获得最优惠的价格。概念乳业的创新将改变这一点。我们正在为农民数字化购买3f，这样他们就可以通过手机看到现场市场价格，在未来最适合他们的时候购买并锁定他们的投入成本。我们正在授权农民能够独立参与市场，为英国牛奶供应链创造急需的财务安全和可持续性。通过让农民更好地控制投入成本，我们正在支持他们在财务上可持续发展。只有解决财政可持续性问题，农民才有能力真正拥抱并实现净零排放。

Feed, Fuel and Fertiliser, the 3Fs, are all vital ingredients for dairy farmers. Since summer 2021, the cost of the 3Fs has been spiralling upwards making the cost of production in dairy extremely challenging and giving farmers very little capacity to embrace net zero initiatives because they don't know if their business will be profitable.Dairy farmers currently have very little ability to control their input costs. Purchasing the 3Fs is generally a very manual process and farmers can only buy at today's prices, which are currently very high.But there are open markets available across the 3Fs, where product is being bought and sold into the future. Generally at the moment, only big companies have access to these markets where they trade the 3Fs to secure the best prices.Concept Dairy's innovation will change this. We're digitalising the purchase of the 3Fs for farmers so that through their phone, they can see what the live market prices are, purchase and lock-in their input costs into the future, when it best suits them. We're empowering farmers to be able to participate in the markets independently, creating much-needed financial security and sustainability of the UK milk supply chain. By giving farmers greater control of their input costs we are supporting them to be financially sustainable. It is only by addressing financial sustainability that farmers will have the capacity to truly embrace and achieve net zero.